Money Manager
Ex for Windows (32-bit)
1.2.7

4.5 (158 votes)

(April 14, 2016)

Windows 7/2000/Server 2003/Vista/XP /
Open Source /
24,342 downloads

Money Manager is a personal finance software. It primarily helps organize one's finances and keeps track of where, when and how the money goes. It is also a tool to get a bird's eye view of your financial worth. The program supports checking accounts, savings and credit card accounts, as well as Fixed Deposit and Portfolio accounts. The Outlook-style interface provides an overview for all your accounts and total balance. You can transfer money between accounts, create custom categories to organize your income/expenses and more.

Money Manager Ex is a complete rewrite of the original .NET Money Manager. It is Cross Platform and can be ported to run on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It has a very powerful and flexible open data storage using SQLite databases.

For those who want a simple, reliable money manager without the bells, whistles and bloat of MS Money, MMEX rocks. Cross-platform and open source too. Strongly recommended.

Reviewing 0.9.2.0 (Nov 19, 2007)

- Fix bug encrypting MMEX DB

man am i glad they fixed this!! 5/5 again! :)
love this software!

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Suggestion
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- please allow adding/removing and re-ordering of columns in account view... for example I'd like to see description and get rid of transaction number, etc... thanks! :)

Reviewing 0.9.1.0 (Nov 18, 2007)

as soon as i ditched all other alternatives and started using this full-time i've been experiencing a very annoying bug... ever since 0.9.0 it crashes after every single transaction (be it new, edit, etc)

This is a cool app and after recently getting extremely frusterated and giving up on Quickbooks due to its clunkiness and ridiculous organization - I felt immediately thrilled with this and transferred my spreadsheets into CSV and into this. Worked great.

I have many complaints though --

#1) Does not periodically save backups. I just lost 1 hour of work after it crashed.

#2) Details field is not an available column

#3) On Repeating Transactions, the Transaction # is not an available column, making multiple repeating transactions from the same client confusing.

A WONDERFUL alternative to Quickbooks or Quicken, especially for personal small time use like I need the program for. I never thought of keeping a tab on my personal financial situation until now. This program makes it easy, quick, and fast. Please add the ability to have graphical reports like PIE CHARTS! This is one deeply lacking feature from the program. 4 star program until graphical reports are added!

Reviewing 0.8.0.5 (Apr 3, 2007)

just keeps getting better and better... still a few minor quirks, especially when scrolling up and down an account with lots of activities but its more than enough for my needs!

I like this one so far. Light and flexible. Two things bother me. 1. entry should look more like checkbook register type. very small learning curve. 2. when trying to create JUST a savings account, you are given the option of Checking/Savings and then when chosen, it locks itself as Checking. you then have to rename it to something like "Savings Acct:" or whatever floats your boat so that you can see it in the tree list that it's a savings account.

it comes up with a SQL syntax error after creating a bank account on first start. Furthermore it does not support dynamic stock price updates. I don't expect it to be realtime (you usually have to pay for that) - but some kind of automatic update would be nice indeed. 3/5 for now.

Excellent piece of software. It's been over a year since I switched over from Quicken. Everything you need to manage your personal income and investments is available at your fingertips. Also, the software is constantly updated with ever improving performance and features.

This is really nice. I like the simple, no-nonsense tree interface. DatabaseBen, has a point about it being beta, but there's no risk of any financial data being stolen as it doesn't connect out to the internet. It's just a registry to keep track of your financial numbers in an interface 1000x more simplistic than msmoney or quicken.

but putting sensitive financial data into an experiment is like leaving a wallet full of money on a bistro table in a shopping mall.

since there is no "seal of assurance" for programs like these (yet) I will wait for my bank
to list it as a software that has been tested and approved by them to securily manage confidential financial data. Then i'll be happy to use it...

Reviewing 0.7.0.0 Beta (Sep 5, 2006)

excellent!
not as advanced as ms money but like i said not everyone uses all those bells and whistles.... this is perfect for me!

oh and ANOMOLY since when isn't truecrypt free? its open source so obviously its free. get the facts straight...

i have my money manager and a handful of other personal files safely stored in a truecrypt hidden volume... doesn't get much better than that!

For one, any device that carried ANY so called vital info would itself have to be secure. But simply axcrypting (truecrypt is not free -axcrypt rocks) the exe and or db would at least guard the #'s themselves.

Reviewing 0.6.2.0 (Jul 24, 2006)

excellent!

small and efficient... i don't need all the bells and whistles from the increasingly large and bloated MS Money...

would be nice to see some sort of password protection and encryption before 1.0 though!

Pretty amazing that this does not have even basic password protection. With this amount of personal data, the database needs to be encrypted, and the program needs to be protected by a master password that is also encrypted on disk.

Looks pretty useful though... I do plan on making use of it if he implements encryption (looks like it's on his feature list according to his Google Groups support messages...).

EXCELLENT! I have been using this instead of the bloated MM and Quicken. Has never crashed, and is simple and small. I dont need the big bang theory of MM or Quicken to track my checkbook, etc. Great Product.

looks very promising!
i've been using MS Money for as long as i can remember but i don't really need most of the complicated advanced features... i just didn't want to use an excel spreadsheet...
but this seems like a perfect solution!

still has a ways to go before most ppl can rely on it but when it matures it looks like it will be an amazing little app!

This is great! I currently use Microshaft Money, but can see myself using this in the future. Password protection and encryption is all that's missing. I like the small footprint; a little over 4.5 MB compared to 113 MB for MS Money. I don't need or want alot of bells and whistles just to balance my checking account. Money Manager Ex fits the bill nicely.

I like it , i'm not having the issues the other users have reported , i've tested it not extensivley
as of yet but i will contuinue to use it for a few months and see how it pans out as well as contuinue to search for the perfect program for this type of simple checkbook , billing tracking type of program.......

I would however like to see password functions & data base encryption to ensure security.

I realize this is clearly labelled 0.1 Alpha, but it is sooooo unfinished and crash-prone that you could not possibly use this for any real-world financial management. Although the description implies that the program is cross-platform already, it's really just theoretical. It has been rewritten in VC++ which "could" presumably be ported to another ANSI C++ compiler for Linux, Mac OS X, etc. but it hasn't actually been done, and the author looks to be a long way from having enough functionality on Win32 that anyone would want to run it on other platforms. If he wanted cross-platform, he would have been better off adapting his .NET code for Mono. Mono hasn't finished their Windows.Forms implementation but their Gtk# toolkit is usable.